why hello there!

I'm Bob, a 31-year-old Software Engineer
living in Sunnyvale, CA. I spend my days working at an awesome
bay area startup which is still currently in stealth mode. I
previously worked in R&D at DreamWorks Animation
on the rendering team.

I graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo,
where I received my M.S. in Computer Science in 2012 and my
B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2010.

In the past I've worked at iFixit
and Dozuki, which are on a
mission to teach the world how to do amazing things. I worked on
everything from backend server administration to frontend
JavaScript. It was an amazing place to work.

I also did a stint at Cisco Systems,
where I wrote an internal SNMP performance testing tool for their
biggest and baddest core routers, and worked in their R&D
group developing UI prototypes for some patent-pending tech that,
sadly, I can't talk about.

If you'd like to get in contact, you can reach me at
bob@bobsomers.com or
(661) 619-1457.

blogalicious!

My blog is entitled SIGTTOU. That's the UNIX signal that a process
is sent when it's in the background and tries to write to the
terminal. I like to think of my blog as the place where all my
background projects get to write to the terminal.

Sadly, the blog is down for maintenance at the moment.
Hopefully I'll get some free time soon to bring it back to life.

projectacular!

Any code I publicly release shall henceforth be posted on
my GitHub account, because Git is
awesome and GitHub is just flat out
sublime.

clogging up the tubes!

If you think I'm interesting, you should follow me on Twitter.
Fair warning, though: I'm not a very big Twitter user and mostly
use it to publicly shame companies when they have poor
customer service. You might not find that very interesting.

If you're a recruiter, feel free to shoot me
an email, but be forewarned that I have, without a doubt, the
absolute coolest job in Silicon Valley right now. This is not an
exaggeration. I'm not actively looking for employment.